He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.